The 12th edition of the Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival (11-16 January 2019), held in the charming traditional Serbian hamlet of Mećavnik, originally built for Emir Kusturica's Life Is a Miracle and located close to the border with Bosnia-Herzegovina, will be marked by the meeting of two years, as the Orthodox New Year's Eve will be celebrated there on the night of 13 January. But it will also, as usual, offer a selection of aspiring filmmakers the chance to meet established directors keen on sharing their experience with the next generation.

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The short-film competition showing off these young talents' works, which the festival programme is mainly built around (read our interview with Kusturica, published for the 10th edition), comprises 21 short films (selected from among a total of 718 submissions) hailing from Serbia, Macedonia, Russia, Poland (the most strongly represented country, with three contenders), Switzerland, Spain, Germany, France, Norway, Turkey, Israel, Canada, the USA, Australia, Cuba, Syria, Iran and the Philippines. The three-member jury that will bestow the Golden, Silver and Bronze Eggs upon its favourite shorts consists of Canadian-American actress Stana Katic, Serbian publisher and writer Slobodan Despot, and French documentary director and audiovisual producer Tancrède Ramonet. French DoP Michel Amathieu (who has worked with Kusturica, Volker Schlöndorff and Agnieszka Holland, amongst others) will choose the winner of the Vilko Filač Cinematography Award.

Most of the films accompanying the workshops form the Contemporary Trends section. Matt Dillon will speak after a screening of Gus Van Sant's 1989 title Drugstore Cowboy as part of the Retrospective of Greatness section, which also includes Miloš Forman's Taking Off and Bernardo Bertolucci's five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece 1900. Amongst the more recent movies in the programme, it is also worth mentioning Ivan Salatić's Montenegrin story You Have the Night[+leggi anche: recensionetrailerscheda film] (New Authors) and Alina Skrzeszewska's Game Girls[+leggi anche: recensionetrailerscheda film] (Küstendorf Presents).